UEFA Champions League: 2nd Qualifying Round

The long road to qualifying for Champions League football has just entered the second stage. Clubs from all parts of Europe are battling it out for a place in the group stages of Europe’s elite club competition.

If you thought the UCL just starts September or with the qualifiers that features teams from Europe’s top major leagues, think again. There are three qualifying rounds, a play-off stage before the group stages of the Champions League kicks off.

How stressful!

The first qualifying round started with 10 teams, 5 – Alashkert, Vikingur, Hibernian, The New Saints, Linfield – of which have now moved on to this next qualifying round to join up with the 29 teams already in this round.

17 teams will make it through this stage of the competition and make their way to the third round of qualifying. But that will be decided after this week’s – and next week’s – results.

Focusing on the second qualifying round, we have familiar names like Celtic, Ludogorets, Salzburg, and Legia Warsaw going head to head; names that are not strangers to the group stage of this competition.

While qualification for the group stage seems a fair distance away, involves a whole lot of hard work and some good luck too, it also means club football season in Europe is very well underway. Tuesdays and Wednesdays… and even Thursdays too are now alive.

While some other clubs will be touring Asia and the Americas thanks to pre-season friendlies, some others will be battling it out for a ticket to stay alive in the qualifying group stages of the UEFA Champions League.

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P.S: Which of these teams are you expecting to make it all the way to the group stages of the UEFA Champions League? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.